Time to Party

It's Wednesday. And thus time to party. Dear ReadersEvery Wednesday, Cym Lowell, author and blogger, hosts a party and gives away an awesome prize. (Ask me, I just won books and books!). And all you have to do is to link one of your reviews. As simple as that.Here are the details (copied from Cym's …

CELEBRATING THE SIMPLE PLEASURES OF LIFE: PAPA’S WIFE

There are certain books that lie with you for years but somehow you either don’t get the chance to read them or keep putting them off on some pretext or the other – better finish the book borrowed from the library, keep it for a ‘rainy day’, read it when you are a particular mood, …

Book Review Party

Thru Julie @Knitting and Sundries, I have come to know of an exciting new weekly feature: Book Review Party Wednesday, hosted by Cym Lowell. Participation is simple, one simply has to link up a review that one has written and if lucky, he/she can win a giveaway. For details and participation in this week's party, click here:http://cymlowell.blogspot.com/

Adam Dalgliesh’s Adversary: P.D. James’ A Mind to Murder

He wondered briefly where Deborah Riscoe had dined, and with whom. Their meeting now seemed part of a different world. Perhaps because he was tired he felt none of the confidence with which he usually began a case. He did not seriously believe that the crime would defeat him. Professionally, he had never yet known …

Are you who you think you are? Desmond Bagley’s The Tightrope Men

Then he looked into the mirror above the basin and, for the first time in his life, experienced sheer terror...Usually I steer clear of espionage thrillers because if the story is set during the two world wars then one can be sure that Germany would come to a sticky end and if it is a cold …